Paul Volcker’s 2005 Warning: An Economy On Thin Ice

I came across the article linked to below while re-reading the March 2006 issue of Outstanding Investor Digest. Mr. Buffett recommended the article to 2005 Berkshire Meeting attendees.

The U.S. expansion appears on track. Europe and Japan may lack exuberance, but their economies are at least on the plus side. China and India -- with close to 40 percent of the world's population -- have sustained growth at rates that not so long ago would have seemed, if not impossible, highly improbable.

Yet, under the placid surface, there are disturbing trends: huge imbalances, disequilibria, risks -- call them what you will. Altogether the circumstances seem to me as dangerous and intractable as any I can remember, and I can remember quite a lot. What really concerns me is that there seems to be so little willingness or capacity to do much about it.

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